New Report: Search APIs in 2026

We’ve launched a new report that focuses on SERP APIs (lately called Search APIs). It overviews the market, documenting the shift from human-oriented use cases toward AI agents. We also benchmark 15 index-based and real-time providers to measure their speed of data retrieval. 

Some of the findings include: 

• The market has segmented into full APIs, fast APIs, and indices. 
• Web search for AI has very different requirements compared to pre-AI use cases: it retrieves fewer and less localized search page elements in exchange for speed. 
• Google has been working hard to stop scraping ever since January 2025.
• The fastest indices return data in under 0.4 s, while the quickest real-time API fetches pages in just under 0.7 s.